In 1786, Curtis Brown borrowed slightly more than £72 from Edward Ross, promising to repay the loan in six years with interest, and mortgaging 140 acres of land with "tenements and appurtenances." He also mortgaged five slaves--Isaac, Hannah, Jesse, Jacob, and Jack--to Ross to use and "enjoy the fruits of their labor." Now Ross has died, and his "representatives," Maud Draper and Anna Ross Draper, his widow and administratrix of his estate, refuse to return the slaves, claiming that Ross "purchased the said Slaves of your Orator for ninety four pounds or thereabouts cash." Brown seeks the return of the slaves.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
